"Brussels" is a correctly spelled, correctly used word in written English.
You can use "Brussels" to refer to the capital of Belgium, or more generally, to the metropolitan area that includes parts of both Belgium and France. Example sentence: "We have a meeting in Brussels next week."
It remains unclear whether Juncker will emerge unscathed – he admits his reputation has been tarnished – but top people in Brussels believe that the Luxembourger is safe.
The EU executive in Brussels said on Wednesday that moves to reinstate the death penalty could incur curbs on Hungary's EU rights and entitlements.
In Brussels on Tuesday, Yatsenyuk thanked the OSCE for its plan but said Ukraine had its own proposals for ending the crisis and that the people of his country should settle the issue themselves.
A standard charge against the EU promoting democracy is that the union itself is not democratic – hence Brussels is at best hypocritical.
Hence neither the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, nor Romania's Victor Ponta are right to accuse Brussels of euro-colonialism.
With only an outline sketch of an agreement on the table, many of Europe's most senior policymakers are of the opinion that a crisis point will be reached and that Athens's radical left Syriza government will be forced to either capitulate to Brussels or quit the euro.
In the Polish debate, the issue of the Brussels diktat or loss of sovereignty has surfaced only very rarely of late.
A veteran of the rebellions against the 1992 Maastricht treaty that put modern Tory hostility to Brussels on the political map, he was battling the EU when Nigel Farage was an unknown twentysomething working for a French bank.
Ukip, after all, are in the midst of a seemingly endless political summer, while senior Conservative politicians such as Boris Johnson talk optimistically about life outside the clutches of Brussels.
It was the first time a European leader had warned that Putin was seeking to press Balkan states to his side in the worsening tug-of-war in Europe between Moscow and Brussels.
The Serbs have stalled, playing for time or one side off against the other, with Brussels warning them that a green light would complicate the EU negotiations.
